Thursday, August 03, 2006

Even more annoying than having the latest Shakiraguilera song stuck in your head (what are you doing listening to FM anyway?) is the inability to recall a song that you know you know, or at least ought to know from your youth (you almost certainly were listening to new FM).

It's annoying on two fronts. First, you can't remember it. Second, what if you're wrong? How will you ever know? Confirming that something doesn't exist is a whole lot harder than confirming that it does.

That said, I'd like to help out Cheezy, a Brit-blogger with an interest in kiwiana. Cheezy recalls a song, Buzz Off, about which he thinks he knows a few things but can not yet confirm it's existence.

He knows it was sung by a Maori duo and that it ended with the line "buzz off". He thinks it was around about 1982 and was on a talent show of some sort (now they were tragic). What Cheezy wants, and what I now want too, is to recall the details and lyrics thereby restoring his/my claim to kiwiana pop-culture expertise.

6 comments:

Dave
said...

It wouldn't have been a cover of Joe Perry's "Buzz Buzz", would it? Those early 80s talent shows often used covers rather than orginal music and the timeframe is about right . . .http://www.song-teksten.com/song_lyrics/joe_perry_project/i_ve_got_the_rock_n_rolls_again/buzz_buzz/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Joe_Perry_Project